Netflix has seen skyrocketing success in 2020, and the streaming heavyweight is looking to keep it going next week, when it kicks off tech earnings season with its Q3 report.
So far this year, Netflix has seen its stock price soar 68%, easily eclipsing both its own and Wall Street’s subscriber projections during the first half of the year. To put it into perspective: Netflix added about 26 million global customers during Q1 and Q2, only two million less than it did in all of 2019. Heading into its Q3 report next Tuesday, Netflix sits at 192.9 million subscribers overall.
While the coronavirus pandemic has decimated the cinema business and has giants like AMC and Regal fighting for survival, the pandemic has helped spur Netflix’s massive growth. How long that trend continues is open for debate among analysts, however.
Pivotal Research analyst Jeffrey Wlodarczak, in a recent note to clients, said he’s bullish on Netflix’s continued growth. Wlodarczak put a $6 ...

A stinging report from Singula Decisions has concluded that in these days of falling customer numbers, TV subscription brands are their own worst enemy when it comes to losing customers, with loyal subscribers to TV brands are feeling rejected ignored by brands that show favouritism to new customers...

The first three locations for the music-focused hotel partnership with Dakia Global are Atlanta, Orlando, and Biloxi, Mississippi.
Universal Music Group and investment holding company Dakia U-Ventures, LLC made a rather brief announcement in August of a partnership to develop what they called “a new music-focused experiential hospitality category.” They promised more details at a later date...

Ted Lasso, Mythic Quest and Beastie Boys stories are among our highlights this year, but the service still has a way to go...

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Following the shift to remote working, Zoom quickly became one of the most well-known SaaS players in the tech industry. Now, the company is beginning to offer hardware subscriptions.
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Roku will offer guarantees to ensure advertisers’ campaigns don’t overlap with linear and increase site visits and app installs.
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While Apple has not revealed any viewing figures for Apple TV+, industry sources say the new "Defending Jacob" drama is a hit with higher viewing figures, and audience engagement, than most shows on the service...

The cofounder of smart speaker firm Sonos called out Spotify CEO Daniel Ek for his remarks on Apple's closed ecosystem.
In a Wednesday interview with Bloomberg News, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek had said Apple has a long way to go before it's an "open and fair platform." Spotify is currently pursuing an antitrust complaint against Apple.
Shortly after Ek's remarks, Sonos cofounder John MacFarlane said it was "significantly more difficult to work within Spotify's 'closed' ecosystem than Apple's."
Sonos, which makes high-end speakers, is reliant on third-party partnerships with services like Spotify, and it's clear those haven't always gone smoothly.

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The cofounder of smart speaker firm Sonos has called out Spotify, after its billionaire CEO Daniel Ek spoke negatively about Apple's closed ecosystem.
In a Wednesday interview with Bloomberg News, Spotify's Ek had said Apple has a long way to go before it's an "open and fair platform." Spotify ...

Disney reported its Q2 2020 earnings today, revealing a closer look at how the company has been affected by the coronavirus outbreak. The bright spot in this quarter? Streaming video services like Disney+.
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Streaming video services like Apple TV+ and Disney+ are facing a ‘coronavirus crunch’ in their release plans. The lockdown means productions have been put on hold, leaving them with potential holes in their programming schedules further down the line.
Disney+ is reportedly using one of its key advantages in the market to fill those holes …
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EXCLUSIVE: David Bowie biopic Stardust, which was due to debut at Tribeca next week, is instead to get a live ‘online red carpet’ and screening for buyers and press. London-based sales firm Film Constellation is making up for Tribeca’s postponement due to coronavirus with a digital launch through a bespoke online platform ...

The Quibi mobile app was installed by 300,000 users on its launch day on Monday, according to mobile analytics company Sensor Tower.
For comparison, Disney Plus was installed 4 million times on its launch day in November.
Quibi founder Jeffrey Katzenberg said in June that the company would spend $470 million on its marketing campaign in its first year.
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Quibi, the mobile-only streaming service with TV episodes in 10 minutes or less, debuted on Monday, but didn't top the download charts.
The Quibi app was installed by 300,000 users in its first day across Apple and Android platforms in the US and Canada, according to mobile analytics company Sensor Tower.
For comparison, the Disney Plus mobile app was installed 4 million times in North America on its launch day in November, according to Sensor Tower data. Quibi's downloads are just 7.5% of that. Quibi is ahead of HBO Now's first-day installs, though. That app was installed 45,000 times...

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Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos says that all of the streaming service’s “productions around the world are shut down” because of the coronavirus pandemic, which he calls “a massive disruption.”
“It’s unprecedented in history,” Sarandos told CNN’s Brian Stelter on Sunday.
Even as usage of their service has increased from millions of people worldwide staying home on lockdown, Netflix is still navigating the coronavirus crisis.
He noted that because Netflix plans “pretty far ahead” on developing new shows, the service’s release schedule is set for the next several months. He said that the challenge will come later in the year, as shows and films that were in production for release in late 2020 have been put on pause due to the ongoing pandemic...

The $26.5 billion merger between the third and fourth largest US wireless companies will finally close...

NBCUniversal -- which comprises TV property NBC as well as film studio Universal Pictures -- is getting out of the Snapchat business.
As first spotted by The Hollywood Reporter, in a 10-K filing by parent company Comcast from Jan. 31, the media conglomerate sold its entire $500 million stake in Snapchat parent company Snap. NBCU first announced that it was investing half a billion dollars into Snap three years ago, as the company was going public, amid other investments by NBCU into digital properties BuzzFeed and Vox.
The Reporter reports that the sale likely serves to offset the reported $2 billion that Comcast is deploying to launch its own streaming service, Peacock, as well as the $39 billion it spent to acquire British media and telecom conglomerate Sky. Per the filming, Comcast recorded a $293 million gain on the sale of its Snap equity in fiscal 2019, but lost $263 million on the investment in 2018, when Snap’s stock price fell in the wake of its IPO....

"This should be seen as a signal to other manipulation services that we are prepared to take action against them.”
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Disney has been forced to scrap plans for a glitzy European press launch for Disney+ in London this week after the event became one of the latest industry gatherings to be hit by coronavirus fears. Disney was hosting the party at the Exhibition London event space on March 5 to “celebrate the European launch ...

Streaming persists as a major money maker for music’s fat-cats. Not only did it account for 80% of the entire music industry‘s profit in 2019, streaming collectively earned Universal, Sony, and Warner almost $1 million per hour — per fucking hour. In fact, booming subscriber bases led to increased streaming revenues for the industry’s “Big Three.” Music Business Worldwide reports they hit $3.73 billion, $2.4 billion, and $2.21 billion respectively, down from 2018, but still impressive. This solidifies services like Spotify as the primary revenue driver for Big Music; a market now larger than the entire US recorded music market just two years…

Netflix has renewed “Sex Education” for a third season. The news was announced by the streamer via a video on its Twitter account. The series centers on 16-year-old Otis Milburn (Asa Butterfield), an inexperienced, socially awkward high-school student who lives with his sex-therapist mother (Gillian Anderson). Otis is a reluctant expert on sex but...

Orange a prévenu il y a trois mois de cela que certaines offres Open allaient augmenter en prix contre l'ajout des appels illimités. Trois mois plus tard, les utilisateurs n'ont fait que subir l'augmentation. En ce début d’année, on ne compte plus le nombre d’opérateurs qui ont tenté de glisser une augmentation des prix en ...

Spotify Tastebuds is a new social music discovery feature now in testing. It’s the first move into social sharing since 2017 when the platform made friend activity exclusive to desktop. Tastebuds lets users explore ‘music taste profiles’ of friends. It’s a navigation option that sits alongside Library and Home/Browse in the mobile app. The ...

Disney+ has been available for only a month and the streaming service is already is a huge success for Disney. Not only do you get access to plenty of new and old Disney shows, but the Disney+ subscription is actually cheaper than any of Disney's rivals. For $6.99, you get support for four simultaneous Disney+ streams that go up to 4K UHD quality, depending on the show. Netflix’s cheapest plan ($8.99) only supports streaming SD shows to a single device at a time. If you pay for a full year of Disney+ access, the monthly cost goes down to $5.83. It’s no wonder that more than 10 million people subscribed to Disney+ at launch, with many of them having taken advantage of even cheaper pre-release deals. And that number may hit 20 million by the end of the year, according to recent estimates.

All that is apparently enough to scare Netflix into finding better ways to compete against its biggest rival to date. And that includes testing new membership plans that would reduce the...

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